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The Braselton News
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Social News
Church News
The Jackson County Community Outreach met on December 3 with SK Bat
tery as the topic.
SK Battery official
speaks at JCCO meeting
Steven Jahng, relationship
officer of SK Battery Amer
ica was the invited guest at
the Jackson County Com
munity Outreach ‘s Decem
ber 3 membership meeting.
Mr. Jahng took this op
portunity to meet the JCCO
membership and outside
invited guest and provide
related available informa
tion regarding the forthcom
ing SK Battery complex in
Commerce. He stated that
Geogia Quick Start program
and Lanier Technical Col
lege would most likely be
the two workfoce training
modes to fulfill the skills
needed by SK.
“He understands the val
ue of all segments of our
community and region to
contribute to the success of
SK Battery America,” Jim
Scott, JCCO president stat
ed. Some members ques- gteven Jahng, relationship officer of SK Battery
tions were regarding infra- A mer j ca , spoke at the Dec. 3 meeting of the Jack-
structure needs to support S on County Community Outreach,
not only SK but new SK
support businesses, hous
ing needs, medical facili
ties, impact on our school
systems, skilled workforce
availability on a long range
basis. It was discussed as
how the JCCO can assist
positively to SK and contin
ue to be a strong champion
for both academic and tech
training in our county.”
Mr. Jahng stated he “Was
impressred with our dual
enrollment programs in
Jackson County” adding
an increased dimension to
economic development. He
related that SK has other
than its main plant in South
Korea, one plant in Hun
gary, two plants in China
and the Commerce plant
will serve the United States
auto market with EV battery
units. He also advised the
JCCO members that at some
point in 2020 contingent of
contractors will arrive in
Jackson County to install
equipment in phase one of
the plant.
JCCO members in at
tendance were Jim Scott,
the Rev. B. H. Bailey, Ani
ta Brown-Jackson, Gene
Gilliam the Rev. Luis Her
nandez, Charlotte John
son, Alice Rucker, Renee
Brown, Dulce Gerber and
JCCO Student Intern Jack-
son Fuller. The invited guest
who came was Claude Lay,
Steward of Paradise AME
Church. Jefferson.
“As President of the
JCCO, we sincerely thank
Mr. Jahng for spending his
time with us,” Scott said.
Elachee plans first day hike
Elachee plans its First hikes, 3-mile and 5-mile join,” organizers state.
Day Hike on January 1 at options. Each hike will Elachee Nature Science
1 p.m. be led by an Elachee Center is located at 2125
“Join us as we kick off staff member at a fam- Elachee Dr., Gainesville,
the new year! We will ily-friendly pace. Meet For more information,
offer two moderate level at the Nature Center to call 770-535-1976.
Stars Over Elachee coming up
Stars Over Elachee will be Register by calling the grams/special-events/stars-
held January 4 at 5:15 p.m.; Nature Center at 770-535- over-elachee-program/
Feb. 1 at 6 p.m.; Feb. 29 at 1976. Elachee Nature Science
6:15 p.m; and March 28 at For more information, Center is located at 2125
7:45 p.m. visitelachee.org/public-pro- Elachee Dr., Gainesville.
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Hoschton Baptist to celebrate youth Sunday
Hoschton Baptist Church will celebrate youth Sunday on Sunday, Dec. 29, during
the morning worship service beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Hoschton Baptist Church is located at 380 Sam Freeman Rd., Hoschton.
For more information, call 706-654-8415.
The pastor is the Rev. Cory Sexton.
White Plains to hold New Year's Eve singing
A New Years Eve singing featuring The Homeland Boys will be held at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday, Dec. 31, at White Plains Baptist Church.
The church is located at 3650 Highway 124 West, Jefferson.
A life-changing
thought experiment
By Bo Bowen
I challenge you to contemplate some
thing for the next few moments:
How would your life be different if you
considered everything that happened to
you - every situation or experience or per
son or, yes. even problem that came your
way - as a gift? As something at least
somewhat unexpected, wholly unearned
and undeserved?
What would change about the way you
carried yourself throughout your day-
in-day-out routine? If you disciplined
yourself to receive each question, each
concern, each dilemma with a sense of
wonder, of excitement at all the possibil
ities that lay in each moment, how would
your day-in-day-out existence be trans
formed?
Every meal.
Every long checkout line.
Every opportunity to help someone
with directions.
Every bug-eyed kid peering at you over
the back of the restaurant booth.
Every Facebook comment.
Every neighborhood dispute.
Every first episode of a new Netflix se
ries.
Every piece of music.
Every troubling news story.
Every parent-teacher conference when
you suspect the report will be less than
stellar.
Every rough day on the job.
Every unexpected great day on the job.
To see all these things as gifts, to re
ceive each little thing as groundwork for
an utterly unique future - what would that
do to your spirit? To your mood?
More importantly, what would become
of the way you interacted with others?
With your kids? Your spouse? Your par
ents and relatives? Your neighbors and
coworkers?
I know, I know. It's a shamelessly ide
alistic exercise, especially when we think
about all the bad experiences that drift our
way, sometimes daily. But all around us
right now we can observe the trappings of
the holiday season - a season marked by
gift-giving. And I know full well by now
that not every gift I’ll receive this season
is going to be enjoyable. From a friend,
I’ll get a book I have no interest in read
ing. From a family member, I’ll get a shirt
that is frightfully out-of-style, which I’ll
have to slog to the mall in order to return.
I’ll open the package from that relative
who lives far away and it will be just as I
suspected, another dog-ugly tie I can wear
nowhere. (I don’t even wear ties!)
And yet, even in these disappointments,
if I'm willing to look for it. I can find the
potential for gladness and intimacy. As
Frederick Buechner put it so well in his
memoir Now and Then, “Listen to your
life. See it for the fathomless mystery
that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no
less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your way to the holy
and hidden heart of it. because in the last
analysis all moments are key moments,
and life itself is grace.”
As a pastor, I talk often about the con
cepts of grace, not to mention the concepts
of forgiveness and gratitude. In Greek, the
word for grace is charis, which means,
“gift.” The word for forgiveness is aphe-
ses, which literally means, “release from
bondage.” And the word for gratitude is
eucharistia, “thankfulness.” Each word
carries with it an air of unexpectedness -
of hopeful surprise. Each word signals the
opening of possibilities.
So, what would happen if everything
was charis? Grace, A gift.
In everything we do, from going over
the family budget, to keeping the house
relatively clean, to disciplining our chil
dren. what if we looked carefully for the
opportunities to issue apheses, a release
from bondage, or remission of a penalty?
In this volatile day and age, where quiet
mornings too soon give way to stressful
days, where Congress can’t agree and we
can’t agree on whether or not Congress
should agree, where the simple, childlike
joy of the holiday season is swallowed
up by the stress of sufficiently calendar
ing the holiday season activities... Well,
it seems to me there are really only two
kinds of people, and it isn’t the happy and
the sad. and it isn’t the kind and the mean.
It’s the thankful and the dissatisfied.
If only for a day, or perhaps for the rest
of this year, or as a resolution going into
2020, what if you chose eucharistia - to
be thankful in all things?
Bo Bowen is senior pastor of The
Church on the Hill in West Jackson. He
writes at bobowenblog.com.
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